In this paper, we propose a new method for computerized human face recognition using fractal transformations. The popular use of fractal image coding has been for image compression. It is only recently that their uses for object recognition are being explored. We will show that by utilizing the intrinsic properties of block-wise self-similar transformations in fractal image coding we can use it...

This paper proposes a moment based encoding algorithm for iterated function system (IFS) coding of nonhomogeneous fractal images with unequal probabilities. Moment based encoding algorithms for IFS coding of non-homogeneous fractal images require a solution of simultaneous algebraic equations that are difficult to handle with numerical root-finding methods. The proposed algorithm employs a vari...

In recent work, various fractal image coding methods are reported, which adopt the selfsimilarity of images to compress the size of images. However, till now, no solutions for the security of fractal encoded images have been provided. In this paper, a secure fractal image coding scheme is proposed and evaluated, which encrypts some of the fractal parameters during fractal encoding, and thus, pr...

Matching pursuit is a general and exible method for solving an optimization problem that is of interest in signal analysis, coding, control theory and statistics. In this paper, principles of rate-distortion optimal coding are used in combination with matching pursuit algorithm to obtain an enhanced fractal image coding method. The advantages of using such a method over traditional fractal imag...

Describing and extracting image’s feature is a key question in content-based image retrieval system, and this paper puts forward a novel image retrieval method using image information entropy and fractal coding. First, compared with a given threshold computed from the inquired image, each image in the database is classified by computing its image entropy. Second, the inquired image’s fractal co...

1. ABSTRACT Fractal coding is gaining in popularity as an efficient still-image coder. One drawback of conventional block-based fractal coders, however, is that they do not offer progressive image transmission. This paper proposes two new methods by which fractal image coders can progressively transmit the image data. The first method, the transmission-sequence-based fractal coder (TSFC), progr...

This paper reports on investigations concerning the convergence of the reconstruction process in fractal coding schemes from a statistical point of view. For a rather general family of “fractal operators” a necessary and sufficient condition for the convergence based on the spectral radius of the fractal operator is provided. Emerging from this condition the probability density function (pdf) o...

Fractal Video Compression with affine transform is a recent technique based on the self-symmetry of the image. This process encompasses wide variety of coding schemes. This scheme involves four levels and at each level, there are number of techniques. This survey represents advances on theoretical and practical aspects of fractal coding scheme.